Sales up, prices down
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on April 7, 2003 at 8:50:37 PM
Do you remember when a good computer cost $3,000? I do, in fact, it was my first computer. A good old 486 DX2/50 with 4 MB of ram. Now you can get a good computer for less than $800. Our system guides are coming out again this month (we do a bi-monthly price guide).
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Meanwhile, unit sales of sub-$800 desktops grew by 17 percent, allowing the category to capture a whopping 72.9 percent of total desktop unit sales in February, up from 56.7 percent in the same month last year, he said.